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Jose de Jesus AMEZCUA CONTRERAS
Aliases
Chuey AMESCUA; Chuy AMEZCUA; Jesus AMEZCUA CONTRERAS; Jose de Jesus AMEZCUA; Adan HERNANDEZ
DoB
1964-07-31; 1964-07-31; 1965-07-31
Official reason
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today named 10 individuals and six companies tied to the Amezcua Contreras Organization, a major Mexican drug trafficking organization, as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNTs). The designees, all based in Mexico, are now subject to economic sanctions pursua...
Other Information
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/hp1171
Date of listing
2000-06-01
Program information
Authority
US
Program
Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 598
Regime
OFAC-horizontal
Target State
Drugs
Measures
Blocking Property
Official Information
The Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 598 (FNKSR), implement the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (21 U.S.C. 1901–1908), which provides authority for the application of sanctions to significant foreign narcotics traffickers and their organizations operating worldwide.
Additional Details
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